User guide

Warning

The contents of this guide have been recently incorporated into the libuv documentation and it hasn’t gone through thorough review yet. If you spot a mistake please file an issue, or better yet, open a pull request!

• Introduction
  • Who this book is for
  • Background
  • Code
• Basics of libuv
  • Event loops
  • Hello World
  • Error handling
  • Handles and Requests
• Filesystem
  • Reading/Writing files
  • Filesystem operations
  • Buffers and Streams
  • File change events
• Networking
  • TCP
  • UDP
  • Querying DNS
  • Network interfaces
• Threads
  • Core thread operations
  • Synchronization Primitives
  • libuv work queue
  • Inter-thread communication
• Processes
  • Spawning child processes
  • Changing process parameters
  • Detaching processes
  • Sending signals to processes
  • Signals
  • Child Process I/O
  • Parent-child IPC
• Advanced event loops
  • Stopping an event loop
• Utilities
  • Timers
  • Event loop reference count
  • Idler pattern
  • Passing data to worker thread
  • External I/O with polling
  • Check & Prepare watchers
  • Loading libraries
  • TTY
• About